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Flashy, Splashy 'Hunters' Is More Fun Than It Should Be

Al Pacino is the marquee attraction in Hunters, Amazon's new show about Nazi hunters in the 1970s — but the story is splashy and electric enough that he's not the most interesting thing in it.
Yes, Al Pacino (seen here with Logan Lerman) is in <em>Hunters</em>, Amazon's new show about a band of Nazi hunters in the 1970s, but he's not the most interesting thing about it.

Can you make a habit of killing really evil people — say, unrepentant Nazis hiding in America — and still hold onto your soul?

That's one of the biggest questions at the heart of Amazon Prime Video's electric new series Hunters. It's a splashy story about a scrappy band of investigators tracking down a secret cabal of Nazis in the 1970s that occasionally is a lot more fun than it should be, given the subject at hand.

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